OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in IrAN (PERSIAN) Birth Cohort protocol: rationale, design and methodology	20
Relative time and life course research	16
Promises and pitfalls of qualitative longitudinal research	13
Interviewing adolescents through time: balancing continuity and flexibility in a qualitative longitudinal study	12
Pathways into childbearing delay of men and women in Australia	10
Changes in the returns to education at entry into the labour market in West Germany	8
Little and large: methodological reflections from two qualitative longitudinal policy studies on welfare conditionality	8
Tracking in Israeli high schools: social inequality after 50 years of educational reforms	7
The development of gendered occupational aspirations across adolescence: examining the role of different types of upper-secondary education	7
Upper secondary school tracking, labour market outcomes and intergenerational inequality in Denmark	6
Introduction to the special issue: Prospective qualitative research: new directions, opportunities and challenges	5
The social-origin gap in university graduation by gender and immigrant status: a cohort analysis for Switzerland	5
Data quality and response distributions in a mixed-mode survey	5
Consistency of data collected through online life history calendars	5
Recruitment and retention of participants in longitudinal studies after a natural disaster	5
Social origins, tracking and occupational attainment in Italy	5
Does tracking really affect labour-market outcomes in the long run? Estimating the long-term effects of secondary-school tracking in West Germany	4
COCON – Swiss Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth	4
Collection of genetic data at scale for a nationally representative population: the UK Millennium Cohort Study	4
Changes in sibling similarity in education among Finnish cohorts born in 1950–89: the contribution of paternal and maternal education	4
Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies	4
Ruptured school trajectories: understanding the impact of COVID-19 on school dropout, socio-emotional and academic learning using a longitudinal design	4
Development of socio-economic gaps in children’s language skills in Germany	4
Incongruence between parental and adolescent educational aspirations hinders academic attainment	4
The standardisation of the life course in 20th-century China	3

Studying turning points in labour market trajectories – benefits of a panel-based mixed methods design	3
Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach	3
Social class and sex differences in higher-education attainment among adults in Scotland since the 1960s	3
The early labour-market returns to upper secondary qualifications track in England	3
The lasting imprint of childhood disadvantage: cumulative histories of exposure to childhood adversity and trajectories of psychological distress in adulthood	3
Divergent trajectories: three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland	3
Formal differentiation at upper secondary education in Finland: subject-level choices and stratified pathways to socio-economic status and unemployment	3
Characterising attrition from childhood to adulthood in a 20-year cohort: which baseline factors are influential, and can bias be corrected?	2
A narrative review of teen mothers’ long-term outcomes: what birth cohort studies tell us	2
How do grandparents’ and parents’ educational attainments influence parents’ educational expectations for children?	2
Examining change in migration strategies over the life course of international PhD students	2
The long-term effects of school education on further education: a longitudinal view on motivation and behaviour in youth and adulthood	2
Inequalities in children’s skills on primary school entry in Ireland and Scotland: do home learning environment and early childhood childcare explain these differences?	2
Perceived discrimination in the workplace and mental health from early adulthood to midlife	2
Educational differentiation in secondary education and labour-market outcomes	2
Stability and mobility in occupational career patterns over 36 years in Swiss women and men	2
The ‘lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions	2
Developmental relationships between socio-economic disadvantage and mental health across the first 30 years of life	1
Social origins, track choices and labour-market outcomes: evidence from the French case	1
A study protocol for community implementation of a new mental health monitoring system spanning early childhood to young adulthood	1
The trend of the quality of cause-of-death data and its association with socio-economic indicators in Serbia in the period 2005–19	1
Korean mothers’ career aspirations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative study	1
A reply to ‘Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development’ by Thomas O’Toole et al	1
Letter to the editor: Don’t forget survey data: ‘healthy cohorts’ are ‘real-world’ relevant if missing data are handled appropriately	1
The role of parental and child physical and mental health on behavioural and emotional adjustment in mid-childhood: a comparison of two generations of British children born 30 years apart	1
Not participating in education, employment or training (NEET): hope to mitigate new social risks in the UK?	1
Life course development following childhood adversity: methods and findings from the Christchurch Health and Development Study	1
Diversity of employment biographies and prospects of middle-aged welfare recipients	1
Determinants of participation in a longitudinal survey during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of a low-infection country	1
Health, social and economic implications of adolescent risk behaviours/states: protocol for Raine Study Gen2 cohort data linkage study	1
What role for the ‘long arm of childhood’ in social gradients in health? An international comparison of high-income contexts	1
Work and fertility in Taiwan: how do women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes?	1
A data-driven approach to understanding non-response and restoring sample representativeness in the UK Next Steps cohort	1
Charting well-being over adulthood into pandemic times: a longitudinal perspective	1
A dynamic perspective on the evolution of perceived stress levels in Switzerland: drivers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Developmental Perspectives on Transitions at Age 60: Individuals Navigating Across the Lifespan (TRAILS) – latest data collection in a longitudinal JYLS study	1
Life course trajectories of affective symptoms and their early life predictors	1
The life course – not a straight line!	1
Comparing the educational gradients in three cardiovascular disease-specific health measures	1
Comparison of two approaches in multichannel sequence analysis using the Swiss Household Panel	1
Agency, linked lives and historical time: evidence from the longitudinal three-generation Youth Development Study	1